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A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.
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So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.
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For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;
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So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;
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From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.
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A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.
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And when he had come out of that place, the scribes and the Pharisees came round him angrily, questioning him about more things;
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And watching him, for a chance to get something from his words which might be used against him.